Nicole Michelin avoids airplanes, motorcycles, and most of all, Japan, where her parents once were missionaries.Something happened in Japan…something that sent Nicole and her father back to America alone…something of which Nicole knows only bits and pieces.But she is content with life in little Mount Olive, North Carolina, with her quirky relatives, tank of lively fish, and plenty of homemade pineapple chutney.Through her online column for the Pretty Fishy Web site, she meets Harrison Michaels, who, much to her dismay, lives in Japan.She attempts to avoid him, but his e-mails tug at her heart.Then Harrison reveals that he knew her as a child in Japan.In fact, he knows more about her childhood than she does…

Another Dev Haskell tale, read them all in any order you wish. In Bite Me, wise cracking, back slapping, wrong thinking PI Dev Haskell has just landed his dream job, providing security for people who don’t need it in the first place. That all changes once someone shoots at them in broad daylight. Things quickly fly out of control and Dev suddenly finds himself under the police microscope, literally tied up in a relationship and dodging a growing pile of bodies that all seem to be linked to him. Another in the entertaining Dev Haskell series from Minnesota’s Master of the Bizarre, Mike Faricy

You know being a wizard is not all quests filled with high adventure, finding priceless treasure, warm adulation and reward, and uncovering newfound knowledge?

You really want to be ensorcelled by fell magics, accosted by boisterous knights, enchanted by hostile magicians, waylaid by villainous rogues, attacked by creatures from the nether realms, cursed by dread warlocks, and worse?And those on some of your better days?

Seriously?

Are you crazy?

If you are (crazy, not serious… serious is optional), then Mulogo is the wizard for you and Mulogo’s Treatise on Wizardry is the guide you’ll live by!

Mulogo’s Treatise on Wizardry provides a concise summary in plain (well, mostly plain) language for wizards who wish to have a manual for survival in a harsh world where people (and much nastier) want to kill you and take your stuff (usually in that order).

With varied subject topics ranging from Allies and Whether to Buy Them, On Reducing Risk (and Capitalizing on the Failure of Others), Protecting Yourself From Yourself, How to Minimize the Curiosity of Others, and When Griffins Attack, Mulogo’s Treatise on Wizardry will allow you to thrive… but first you have to survive.

Hopefully you’ll enjoy a few laughs along the way.1

Scribe’s Notes:

1.Mulogo’s Treatise on Wizardry is a largely farcical text making light of wizardly conventions within the larger fantasy, gaming, and roleplaying traditions, assorted related communities and offshoots, memes, and various cultural derivatives. 2

2.If you do not like satire, or laughing, this book is not for you. 3

3.Perhaps a more exciting tome like Navel Lint, Its Permutations and Harvesting would be more to your liking. 4

4.Mulogo does not condone laughing.

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Praise for Mulogo’s Treatise on Wizardry:

“Luckily, I happened upon Mulogo’s Treatise on Wizardry early on in my tutelage while perusing my Master’s library.The Treatise remains to this day one of the most influential and formative works on my development and outlook as a magician. Mulogo’s insights helped me survive my grueling training with a fell god and become the Priest I am today.”

-Wrindanneth the Red, erstwhile Priest of Maeth Onai, member of the Fists

“I avoided Mulogo Treatise on Wizardry during my training like the plague as its perspective is entirely unlike my own. It had no influence on my profession or progression. I have little need or interest to be like either Mulogo or Wrindanneth.”

-Aroganji, Fang Shih of Chang Sen, member of the Fists

“I never heard o’ Mulogo’s Treatise til Wrindanneth showed it ta me. I have no need fer a manual on trimmin’ my nose hairs. They help support my beard.”

-Slate Flintforge, Dwarven Bor’Banna, Brewmaster, Eater of Leftovers, and member of the Fists

“I could never make it past the subtitles.”

-Hoyt, Proprietor of Hoyt’s – Oddities, Found Goods, and Sundries, wizard of Tellanon

Angelica can’t remember who she is or what she is running from. All she has is a locket with a picture and the word Angel. When she wakes up in a ranch house with a handsome cowboy that makes her heart pound, she decides to embrace her new life. Just as she settles into Ranch life with her rescuer the past returns to haunt her.

When Luke finds an unconscious woman on his land in the middle of a storm he has no idea where she might have come from. It doesn’t take him long to realize he doesn’t want her to go back. Unfortunately, the return of her influential father and her memory, destroy his plans for happily ever after.

Angelica doesn’t realize that a killer sent her running. Forced to return to her old life can she figure out where the danger lies before it’s too late? Will Luke come to his senses before Angelica becomes the killer’s next victim?

The book is ancient, ravaged and full of utter nonsense. But the moment it enters Daphna and Dexter’s lives, bizarre things begin to happen. Why is their father, who found the book, suddenly so distant? Is the old man who took it from him some kind of hypnotist? Why is a giant, red-eyed boy menacing them? And what does their thirteenth birthday have to do with all this? Daphna and Dexter can’t stand each other, but they’ll have to work together to learn the truth about the Book of Nonsense – before their lives come apart completely.

With more than 50 recipes and lots of tips, How to Cook from Scraps is the perfect book for anyone who wants to go beyond meals that come out of a box or the freezer aisle. Learning to cook from scraps is about cooking efficiently and throwing away less. Sometimes cooking from scraps is learning to reinvent leftovers. Sometimes it is making your own broth. Cooking from scraps is always about making the food you already have in your house go further.

Cooking efficiently means saving money, creating less waste, and making meals entirely at home. Using the recipes and advice in How to Cook from Scraps, you will utilize every part of your food (even vegetable peels) and run your kitchen in a way that caters to this kind of efficiency. This book focuses on the recipes that are both from scraps and from scratch, but you will find as you make the meals that the tips for cooking this way will make you think differently about how your kitchen is organized.

If you don’t do any cooking from scraps or scratch yet, don’t be daunted. We will take you through the steps you need to change from a throw-away kind of kitchen, to a kitchen that makes wholesome and “whole” foods.